ABOUT THE ARTIST

Upon returning to Germany after five years in the United States, Jens Hanke achieved a series of paintings which he titled "Sequence." Email generated over those months — primarily exchanges with American friends and acquaintances — lent themselves to a second project: a timeline of correspondence which Hanke collected, bound into book form, and overlaid with computer images. For Hanke, the book (also titled "Sequence") represents a time capsule, beginning with one of the last paintings he completed in Chicago and closing with the "Sequence" series.

Below, we are pleased to feature five paintings from the "Sequence" series, along with a link to other selections from Hanke's portforlio of works.

To purchase a copy of the book "Sequence" or to respond to his work, please contact Hanke directly at j.hanke@twootwo.de

Jens Hanke holds an MFA in Graphics and Painting from the Academy for Graphic & Book Art in Leipzig, Germany. He has received numerous awards and scholarships, including grants from Kulturfonds (National Culture Foundation, Germany), DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service), The Pollock-Krasner Foundation (New York) and Kunstfonds (Saxony), and served as a visiting artist at Columbia College Chicago. Hanke now lives in Berlin.

SAMPLE WORK

Click the images below to see larger versions of each work.

Click here to see further selections from Hanke's portfolio.

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